Lookout or door-peep



July 23, 1929. H. sKLAR 1,722,113 M LOOKOUT OR DOOP. PEEP Filed Nov. 9, 1928 L y 4Z 12 ATTORNEY Patented July 23, 1929.

rre

HARRY satan, or NEW YORK, N. Y.

l LOOKOUT OR DOOR-PEEP..

Application filed November 9, 192B.V Serial No. 318,154.

This invention relates generally to improvements on door-peeps such as lare used for enabling a person desiring admission to be subjected to view, or addressed, without opening the door. More speeilically, my invention relates to an arrangement whereby the observer on one side of the door can View the person on thev other side without subjectine himself to attack by the person on the other side.

The object of my invention generally is the provision of a new and useful door-peep or lookout which has features not hitherto employed in such an arrangement.

For the attachment of these objects and such other objects as may hereinafter appear vor be pointed out, l have illustrated in the drawings an embodiment of my invention, wherein:

Fig. 1 is a front elevational view of a door-peep embodying my invention.

Fig. 2 is an elevational view taken from the rear of Fig. 1. n

Fig. 3 is a sectional view taken on the line 3 3 of Fig, 2 showing the peep, open for observation. f

Fig. i is a sectional view similar to Fig. 3 with the parts in a different relation; and

Fig 5 is a side elevational view looking at Fig. 2 from the left.

Before proceeding to describe my invention I will premise that the device shown in the drawings is intended to be fixed in position either on or adjacent to a door of a dwelling, a store or the like, andcomprises generally a frame 10 having an opening 11 therethrough, illustrated in the drawings as circular, and two superposed closures 12 and 13 for-said opening. y i

The frame 10 can be given any preferred or desired contour or conformation and is secured in position by members (not shown) passed through the openings 15. The frame 10 may be provided with a depressed portion or opening 16 in which will appear the name of the occupant or dweller. Mounted upon the frame 10 and to one side of the circular opening 11 are the upstanding pintles 20 in which is secured the pivot p in 21, and mounted upon this pivot pin 21 for swinging movement thereabout are the pintles 23 carried by the outer door 12 and the pintles 24 carried by the inner door 13. The outer door 12 has been illustrated in the drawing as having a transparent section and the inner door 13 as opaque, so as to permit the person on the inside to swing the inner door 13 about its pivot and get a view-of the person through the transparent door and then, if it is desired to carry on a conversation or to passing something through, to open the inner door also.

' The portion of the frame 10 which definesl the circular opening llcomprises generally the upstanding annular ridge 25', the outwardly extending iange 26 and the inor closed position. c

The inner door 13 is biasedto its closec position by means of the spiral spring 31', one end 32 of which abuts against the frame 10 and the other-end 33of which abuts the door, the spring .being held .between the pintles 24. v

One of the objects of my invention is the provision of an arrangement by which both doors can be held closedagainst opening except from the inside and yetwhich will permit optionally of the opening of either the inner door 13 by itself or of both doors and I` will now describe the details of this arrangement. f

v Fixed to and upstanding from the liange 25 is the latch member 35 having a hooked nose as shown at A36. Carried along the outer edge of the inner door` 13 is the coacting latch member 37 carried by the sleeve 38 which is normally spring-pressed outwardly by the spring 39 which has one end vabutting against and fixed to the door 13 and the other end 0in engagement with a portion 34 of the sleeve 38.v The sleeve 38 is so constructed and mounted as to permit both a. rotating movement as well as a movement thereof toward the closure 13 when it yis depressed. The coacting latches 35 and 37 are so positioned that when the door 13 is .biased to its cl'osed position under the action of the spring 31, the latch V3'?` willbe 'cammed over the nose 36 ofthe latch 35 into locking engagement therewith and this is' permitted by the tact that thel sleeve 33 is permitted a limited rotative movement.

The outer door 12 has extending upwardly from the upstanding annular flange, a latch 41 undercut as shown at 42, the annular flange 25 of the trame 10 being cut away as shown at 43 in Fig. 2 so as to receive therein the latch 42 which projects outwardly vand beyond thetrame of the outer door 12. The lower portion oi' the latch 41 is in plane closer to the trame 10 than is the lower portion oi the nose 3G of' the latch 35, as will be observed upon viewing Fig. l of the drawings, and thesleeve 38cari'ying the latch 37 has anA inward movement which not only' permits it to engage beneath the hook 36 but also permits the latch 37 to be forced inwardly closer vto the frame, and this along with the rotative movement which can be given the sleeve permits the latch 37 to be forcedinwardly and moved angularly 'so as to bring it beneath the nose ot the latch 41 on the outer door 12. y I

l/Vith this description it will be understood that, with the parts shown in Figs. 2 and 5 of the drawings, when it is desired to merely open the inner opaque door 13 the sleeve 38 is grasped in the hand and rotated slightlyclockwise so as to diseiigage the lug'A 37 from beneath the nose 36, and is then swung outwardly about its pivot 21, which 1 will bring the parts to the position shown in F ig. 3 of the drawings. Where, on the other hand, it is desired to open both doors, the sleeve 38 isp-firstv forced inwardly toward the frame and then rotated so as to bring the hook 37 into engagement in the undercut portion 42 and beneath thenosev of the latch 41, which causesthe two doors to move together and that with an outward pull upon 1 the sleeve 38 to swing the door 13 about its pivot, the door 12 will also be swung with it.

It will thus be seen that T have provided an arrangement which permits anv inspection et the exterior from the inside room or chamber without exposing the room or those inside the room to the action of dust, dirt or draft from the exterior or to the possibility or" something being pushed through or'into the opening. f

Then it is desired Jto-move the closure 13 to open position without moving the outer closure 12, (see Fig.'3),-T have found that it is advisablethat some means be provided for preventing the opening oit the outer closure 12 by pressure from without. These means are shown in Figs. 3 and 4 as comprising a cam extension 45` extending outwardly from the pintles 24,A the cams being s o arranged that when the door 13 is swung about the pivot pin 21 to open position the cams engage the door 12 and lock the outer closure in closed position. This is clearly shown inFig. 3 of the drawings.

holding it locked to the frame 10 in such a manner that only by manipulation ot these means :trom the inside can this outer door be moved to open position in the manner already indicated. y Such means have not been shown because they an take any conventional forms such are now in common use for this purpose.

lVhere devices of the character herein disclosed are to be employed in connection with apartments or the like, in which knumber or letter designations are employed, as for example 5G, l can associate this number or letter designation with my arrangement herein disclosed so as to have theV vtrame and its associated parts form also the means for designating the apartment. For example, in Figs. 1 and 3 of the drawings, I show this as accomplished vby positioning outsideof the opaque closure 13 so that it.

can be seen from the outside, the designation 5G where my arrangement-is to be employed with an apartment so designated. This designation may take the form ot an opaque member arranged to be secured to or associated with the inside surface of the transparent crystal 30, this opaque member having the designation 5G cut therethrough so that the cutout portion thereof can serve not only as the apartment designation but also asa peephole of limited size so as to prevent the person from the outside viewing either the person on the inside 'or the interior of thev apartment. This designation, it will be understood, can also take theform of a printed or otherwise formed designation 5G associa-ted with the outside faceof the inner closure 13. Y

Having `thus described my invention and illustrated its use, what I claim as ynew and 4 desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. A device of the character described, comprising a trame adapted to be associated with an opening through av door orthe like, an opening through said frame, a plurality of closures for said last mentioned opening, the outer of said closures having a transparent portion and the inner closure beingv opaque, whereby upon opening' the inner closure a view can be had through the trame, said closures being mounted upona common pivot, and releasable locking means for securing said inner closure locked upon the frame, said releasable locking means being movable into engagement 4with the outer closure to cause the two to move as a unit.

2. A device of the character described comprising a frame adapted Vto be associated with an opening through a door or the like, an opening through said frame, a plurality of closures for said last mentioned opening,

the outer of said closures having a transparent portion and the inner closure being opaque, whereby upon opening the inner closure a vieiv ean be had through the frame, said closures being mounted upon a common pivot, and releasable locking means for securing said inner Closure looked upon the frame, said releasahle looking means being movable in one direction to lock the inner closure to the frame and in another direction to lock the inner closure to the outer closure.

3. A device of the Character described, comprising a frame adapted to be associated with an opening through Ia door or the like,

' an opening through said traine, a plurality of closures for said'last mentioned opening, the outer of said closures having a transparent portion, both closures being mounted for swinging movement to and from their lclosed position, engaging means on the from the frame and engage it With the outer closure so as to permitV both closures' to be opened as a unit. 4

4. A device of the character described, comprising a frame adapted to be associated With an opening through a door or the like, an opening through said frame, a plurality jo closures for said last mentioned opening,

permit both closures to be opened 4as a unit,v

and means automatically operative When the inner closure is moved to open position free of engagement with the outervclosure, yfor maintaining said outer closure down upon the frame.

Ink Witness whereof I have signed and sealed this speotieation this lst'day of Nov., 

